Factors Affecting the Monitoring and Evaluation Practices of Hiv/Aids Program: the Case of Amhara Regional Health Bureau, Cdc Project
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2023-01
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Addis Ababa University
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The participation and ownership feelings of community members for HIV/AIDS prevention and control interventions contributed significantly to the reduction of HIV/AIDS incidence, prevalence, and deaths due to AIDS, in addition to the collaborative efforts of both the Ethiopian government and its development partners. Monitoring and Evaluation must be included in every HIV/AIDS program. The main reason for this is ensuring accountability, transparency, learning from experience, monitoring a project's performance during implementation and the project's outcome after completion, as well as evaluating the project's impact after a long period of time. This study aims to assess the practices of M&E and challenges that Amhara Regional Health Bureau-CDC Project faces while practicing Monitoring Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Projects. A total of 57 study participants were included in the study and data was collected with a structured questionnaire and descriptive analysis was conducted using SPSS v26 as a data analysis tool. The study found that, despite having educated and experienced M&E staff, ARHB did not provide them with training that would qualify them as certified M&E practitioners. They carried out the M&E tasks in the way their forefathers had done so. As a result, the M&E staff lacks appropriate technical understanding in M&E, and as a result, M&E is not practiced in ARHB in accordance with the technical standards outlined in various M&E literatures. Furthermore, differing reporting requirements of different funders, time-consuming M&E operations, a lack of budget for M&E, and a lack of competent human resources in M&E all posed challenges to ARHB's M&E system. Thus, the study recommends that M&E orientation and continuous training for new and existing employees should be given, sufficient budget for M&E activities should be allocated, and continuous support to be given for M&E unit/section/department